Database of film release and distributor market share metrics including total distributor rentals. Includes total film releases and box office revenue broken down by country of origin as well as theatrical distributor metrics for number of first run releases, market share and gross revenue.

Modern Times Group, which is poised later this month to complete the spin-off of its traditional media properties (to form NENT Group), presented its new incarnation as a gaming and esports company at an investor day in Stockholm yesterday. This followed a similar event for the NENT Group.

The TV Sets Shipment Tracker Database contains shipment and shipment area data across display type, screen size, manufacturer, and resolution on a global level. The database contains historic data from January 2012 to the last month and forecasts 3 months forward from the previous month.

The UK Government has published today its draft tariff schedule in the event of a ‘no deal’ for leaving the European Union. For TVs, that would mean a potential elimination of high tariffs on sets coming from China, and could signal significant disruption in the brand landscape after a period of adjustment.
Of course, this is contingent on a 'no deal' Brexit, which is far from certain.

At MWC Barcelona in late February, in addition to the highly covered 5G standard, the NB-IoT and the Cellular Vehicle-to-Vehicle (C-V2X) standards also demonstrated significant progress in the cellular IoT space.
This article includes news summary at MWC and IHS Markit analysis that are related to the NB-IoT and the C-V2X technologies.

The Channel Line-up & Availability Database provides continuously updated information on the availability and distribution of pay TV and free to air channels across traditional broadcast and online platforms.

Detailed information on channel revenue and program expenditure. Revenue data includes splits for carriage revenue, direct to consumer subscriptions and advertising. Programming data covers spend on original content, acquisitions and sport.

January was a relatively quiet month for discounting, understandable since all major digital first-party stores for console had hit record highs of activity in the second half of December. Ubisoft was the exception, becoming one of the busiest publishers in the period, with major, themed promotions for both Xbox One and PS4, in multiple regions.

IHS Markit has partnered with appScatter Group, the intelligent app management platform to produce this report. appScatter provides IHS Markit with country-level mobile apps data to support analysis of the mobile games market, mobile games companies and title performance from its Priori Data, enabling us to deliver deeper insight into these market opportunities.

This database contains specification data for Public Display, Public Display TV, LED Video, Front Projection and Rear Projection displays. The data is collected quarterly off a selection of ProAV dealers and distributors for each country.